General Description
Viscous brown liquid.
Reactivity Profile
CARBOSULFAN(55285-14-8) is a thiocarbamate. Flammable gases are generated by the combination of thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates with aldehydes, nitrides, and hydrides. Thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates are incompatible with acids, peroxides, and acid halides.
Air & Water Reactions
Thio and dithiocarbamates slowly decompose in aqueous solution to form carbon disulfide and methylamine or other amines. Such decompositions are accelerated by acids.
Potential Exposure
Carbosulfan is a carbamate insecticide
and a low toxic derivative from cabofuran. It is a broad
spectrum insecticide, nematicide, miticide, effective against
pests and mites. It is used to protect alfalfa, apple, citrus,
corn, deciduous fruit, potato, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugar
beets, sugarcane, and other vegetable, field, tree and
orchard crops. It is used for seed treatments
First aid
Speed in removing material from eyes and skin
is of extreme importance. Eyes: Eye contact can cause dangerous amounts of these chemicals to be quickly absorbed
through the mucous membrane into the bloodstream.
Immediately and gently flush eyes with plenty of warm or
cold water (NO hot water) for at least 15 minutes, occasionally lifting the upper and lower eyelids. Get medical
aid immediately. Skin: Get medical aid. Dermal contact can
cause dangerous amounts of these chemicals to be absorbed
into the bloodstream. Wearing the appropriate PPE equipment and respirator for carbamate pesticides, immediately
flush skin with plenty of soap and water for at least 15 minutes while removing contaminated clothing and shoes.
Shampoo hair promptly if contaminated; protect eyes.
Ingestion: Call poison control. Loosen all clothing. Never
give anything by mouth to an unconscious person. Get
medical aid. Do NOT induce vomiting. If conscious,
alert, and able to swallow, rinse mouth and have victim
drink 4 to 8 oz of water. Check to see if poison control
instructs you to use ipecac syrup, otherwise administer
slurry of activated charcoal (2 oz in 8 oz of water). If
victim is UNCONSCIO United States OR HAVING
CONVULSIONS, do nothing except keep victim warm. In
some cases you may be specifically instructed by poison control to induce vomiting by way of 2 tablespoons of syrup of
ipecac (adult) washed down with a cup of water. Do NOT
give activated charcoal before or with ipecac syrup.
Inhalation: Get medical aid. Do not contaminate yourself.
Wearing the appropriate PPE equipment and respirator for
carbamate pesticides, immediately remove the victim from
the contaminated area to fresh air. If the victim is not breathing, administer artificial respiration. Do not use mouth-tomouth method if victim ingested or inhaled the substance;
give artificial respiration with the aid of a pocket mask
equipped with a one-way valve or other proper respiratory
medical device. If breathing is difficult, administer oxygen
through bag/mask apparatus until medical help arrives. Do
not leave victim unattended.
Shipping
UN2992 Carbamate pesticides, liquid, toxic,
Hazard Class: 6.1; Labels: 6.1-Poisonous materials;
UN2810 Toxic liquids, organic, n.o.s., Hazard Class: 6.1;
Labels: 6.1-Poisonous materials, Technical Name Required.
Incompatibilities
Carbamates are incompatible with strong
oxidizing acids, peroxides, and hydro-peroxides; strong
reducing agents such as hydrides; strong acids and bases.
Contact with nitrides or chemically active metals (aluminum, copper, magnesium, neptunium, sodium, tin, titanium,zinc, etc.) causes the release of potentially explosive hydrogen gas and a metal salt.
Description
Carbosulfan (8),2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethylbenzofuran-
7-yl(dibutylaminothio)methylcarbamate(IUPAC),
is an orange to brown, clear viscous liquid (bp 124–128 ?C),
miscible with organic solvents and solubility 0.3 ppm in
water(25 ?C). It is closely related structurally to carbofuran,and like carbofuran, it is a cholinesterase inhibitor with
systemic activity.
Waste Disposal
Do not discharge into drains
or sewers. Dispose of waste material as hazardous waste
using a licensed disposal contractor to an approved landfill.
Consult with environmental regulatory agencies for guidance on acceptable disposal practices. Incineration with
effluent gas scrubbing is recommended. In accordance
with 40CFR165, follow recommendations for the disposal
of pesticides and pesticide containers. Noncombustible containers should be crushed and buried under more than
40 cm of soil. Must be disposed properly by following
package label directions or by contacting your local or federal environmental control agency, or by contacting your
regional EPA office.
Uses
Carbosulfan is an insecticide with contact and stomach action. It is
used to control a wide range of soil-dwelling and foliar pests in cotton,
sugar beet, potato, rice, fruit, maize, vegetables, sugar cane and coffee.
Definition
ChEBI: Carbosulfan is a member of 1-benzofurans and a carbamate ester. It has a role as an EC 3.1.1.7 (acetylcholinesterase) inhibitor, a carbamate insecticide, an acaricide, an agrochemical and a nematicide.
Metabolic pathway
Carbosulfan is an N-sulfenyl-N-methylcarbamate which is effectively
a pro-insecticide of carbofuran. The latter is formed in vivo by the
biochemical or chemical thiolysis of carbosulfan. N-S Bond cleavage,
oxidation, conjugation and hydrolysis are the main metabolic routes
for carbosulfan in plants and animals. Carbosulfan is degraded via
carbofuran in soil. In plants, carbosulfan is metabolised via carbofuran to
3-hydroxycarbofuran (PM).
Metabolism
Itsmetabolic patterns are similar to those of carbofuran.
In rats, it rapidly undergoes hydrolytic and oxidative
processes followed by conjugation. It is not persistent in
soils, with DT50 ca. 2–5 days, and it was rapidly degraded
to carbofuran in a sandy loam soil (4). Carbofuran was
subsequently hydrolyzed at the carbamate ester group
to form the phenol carbofuran or oxidized at the 3-
position. Biscarbofuran disulfide and minor products were
also detected. Carbofuran was also formed in soils by
nonbiological degradation processes.
Degradation
Carbosulfan is hydrolysed in aqueous media most rapidly under acidic
conditions. Its DT50 values (25 °C) at pH 4,6 and 7 were <1 hour, 22 hours
and 7.6 days respectively (PM). In a variety of aqueous solvents there was
facile cleavage of the N-S carbamate bond of carbosulfan to yield carbofuran
(2) as the sole or major product (see Scheme 1) (Umetsu et al., 1980).
A solution of [14C]carbosulfanin propylene glycol was treated with 0.001
or 0.01 N aqueous HCl at 40 °C. Solutions were analysed at intervals up to
24 hours. Carbosulfan was relatively stable with more than 40% being
recovered after 24 hours in the solution of lower acidity. Carbofuran (2)
was the principal transformation product in hydrochloric acid. Biscarbofuran
disulfide (3) was present in only trace amounts and small
amounts of polysulfides of carbosulfan (4,n = 2-6) were detected (Umetsu
and Fukuto, 1982).
Carbosulfan was quite stable in neutral and alkaline media. [14C-carbonyl]-
or [14C-dibutylamino]Carbosulfan dissolved in dichloromethane:
acetic acid (9:l) converted to a range of products via N-S bond cleavage.
The principal products were carbofuran (2), dibutylamine and a mixture
of polysulfide derivatives: bis-carbofuran disulfide (3) and a mixture of
bis-carbofuran polysulfides (5). Structures of products were confirmed by
MS and NMR (Umetsu et al., 1981a,b).